Hydrogen Ireland Board member Dr Rory Monaghan, NUIG, is to make a presentation at the Energy Ireland 2020 conference in Dublin on October 7-8, 2020. The event at the Aviva Stadium is titled, ‘Irelands Decade of Decarbonisation’. The role of renewable energy technologies in Ireland’s energy system will be explored. – https://www.energyireland.ie/
Irish Times contributor John Fitzgerald has in the past week looked at the issue whether the price of renewables and fossil fuels needs rebalancing. Mr Fitzgerald wrote: “By shifting to renewable energy, the world demand for fossil fuels is likely to fall between 2030 and 2050.
“Longer term, the more successful the world is in developing renewable technolgies, the lower will be the demand for oil, and hence the lower its long term price. In turn, lower fossil fuel prices will discourage necessary investment in renewables. To ensure that investment in renewables continues to be economically attractive, major world economies will need to rebalance the relative price of renewables and fossil fuels, either through raising the price of carbon or heavily subsidising clean energy.”
